re: After one game I'm ready to hop aboard the Vucevic Bandwagon

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The draft is a crapshoot. As "easily" as you can build your team through the draft and have success you can have failure. JMO

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everything is a crapshoot. draft, young vets, FA, whatever. there is no "right" way to build. it's skill and luck. i think the pels have been so-so with the former and severely lacking in the latter.

i do think what they did 4 years ago, given the context of their situation, was sub-optimal. doens't mean it was doomed to fail, just that i wouldn't have done it that way.

also- no way i would give up a mere top 5 protected pick for Vucevic. he's a fine player, but if you can't lottery protect the pick, you can't make the deal IMO.